Tendency on miniaturization of the modern magnetic sensors and devices stimulates development of such magnetic materials with reduced dimensionality. Therefore magnetic materials with outstanding magnetic characteristics and reduced dimensionality recently gained much attention. Consequently thin wire with reduced geometrical dimensions (of order of 1-30 μm in diameter) gained importance within...

The influence of sub-mm geometric constrictions on 90° magnetic domain-wall nucleation and propagation in stripes of ferromagnetic sGa0.95 ,Mn0.05dAs was explored. Measurements of the magnetic switching behavior were performed during ramping of an external magnetic field at constant rate and at constant field in the time domain. Demagnetizing fields are found to play a crucial role in the switc...

Paramagnetic beads electrostatically stabilized in aqueous solution are attracted toward domain walls in magnetic films. The position above the domain wall can be destabilized by realigning the beads magnetic moment with an external magnetic field. The destabilization may result in a steady state dissipative mode, where the beads surf on the slope of the moving domain wall. The technique could ...

We have imaged the magnetization reversal process of thin-film permalloy (Ni80Fe20) nanostructures using ballistic electron magnetic microscopy. Their switching behavior is often influenced by the formation of end domains and the subsequent domain-wall propagation under application of a magnetic field. Occasionally, this process leads to the formation of a 360° domain wall that is stable in fie...

An investigation of the orientation and temperature dependence of domain wall properties in FeP! is presented. We use a microscopic, atomic model for the magnetic interactions within an effective, classical spin Hamiltonian constructed on the basis of spin density functional theory. We find a significant dependence of the domain wall width and the domain wall energy on the orientation of the wa...

Electricity arises from the flow of electron charge, ferromagnetism from the ordering of electron spins. The interactions between electricity and ferromagnetism have been crucial to our technological development over the last centuries: the magnetic fields generated by electrical currents and the voltages generated by moving magnets are two cornerstones of our modern lifestyle. Important applic...

The flow of magnetic charge carriers (dubbed magnetic monopoles) through frustrated spin ice lattices, governed simply by Coulombic forces, represents a new direction in electromagnetism. Artificial spin ice nanoarrays realise this effect at room temperature, where the magnetic charge is carried by domain walls. Control of domain wall path is one important element of utilizing this new medium. ...